I couldn't put it down. A wonderful report on the will of the artistic soul. Not all who opposed the Nazis did so with violence or double-agency. Artists adding importance to their work by making it personal. Must read.

This is the story of two women, Lucy Schwob aka Claude Cajun and Suzanne Malherbe aka Marcel Moore and their struggles with society, with traditional notions of female beauty, and the artistic colony, but especially their war against the Nazis. Although they lived in Paris and summered on Jersey, one of the seven Channel Islands, just before the War they settled permanently in Jersey. In June 1940 with Operation Green Arrow the Germans took over the Channel Islands. Although many of the residents did what they could to resist the Nazis, Lucy and Suzanna created their own special way of undermining German authority.

This was a fascinating story about resistance against the Nazis that is much different from typical memoirs about the Holocaust, as it is about two middle aged queer artists on the small island of Jersey, using art as anti Nazi propaganda. I am so glad that I learned about these two remarkable women. My only complaint would be that the writing does get a little too academic at times, but overall it is still very readable. Would love to see this made into a movie.